The Secret of the Christian Way: A Contemplative Ascent through the Writings of Jean BorellaSUNY Press, 2001 M02 1 - 215 pages Gathering key writings from the French religious philosopher Jean Borella s works, this book moves the reader from the immediacy of the physical world to a world deep within ourselves. Throughout Borella s writings, there is a resurrectional power to his words, a way of seeing things that makes all things new, that endows us with an ability to look anew on Christ and his Body the Church. Translator and editor G. John Champoux has used a selection from Saint Bonaventure s The Soul s Journey into God to preface each of Borella s writings and to show how these insights can take us from our ordinary surroundings into our innermost world. |
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... their own categories on the historians , since , in characterizing a religious movement as a heresy by definition , they have made it an object of study for the historians . Now , that this heresy is called " Gnosticism " 8 PROLOGUE.
... their own categories on the historians , since , in characterizing a religious movement as a heresy by definition , they have made it an object of study for the historians . Now , that this heresy is called " Gnosticism " 8 PROLOGUE.
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... object of the " seminatural " act of knowledge denoted by the term gnosis in its literal meaning . This gnostic moment is , therefore , necessarily spec- ulative . And this is why it is impossible , even with good intentions , to make ...
... object of the " seminatural " act of knowledge denoted by the term gnosis in its literal meaning . This gnostic moment is , therefore , necessarily spec- ulative . And this is why it is impossible , even with good intentions , to make ...
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... object of formulation , but it is not only that . We should also see here a speculative dimension subjacent to Christian dogmatics , a dogmatic that is summarized by the Apostles Creed , incontestably a document of apostolic origin ...
... object of formulation , but it is not only that . We should also see here a speculative dimension subjacent to Christian dogmatics , a dogmatic that is summarized by the Apostles Creed , incontestably a document of apostolic origin ...
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... Object blinds every other knowledge , and gnostic aware- ness must , in some manner , renounce itself : " to be objective , " Frithjof Schuon has said , " is to die a little . " Thus , out of the recog- nition of God - made - object ...
... Object blinds every other knowledge , and gnostic aware- ness must , in some manner , renounce itself : " to be objective , " Frithjof Schuon has said , " is to die a little . " Thus , out of the recog- nition of God - made - object ...
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... Object . This gnostic ordeal , this " lesson of the Dark- ness " wherein the spirit , like Moses , ascends the holy mountain of the Sinai , the " mountain of theognosy , is that very ascent re- jected by philosophism from Hegel to ...
... Object . This gnostic ordeal , this " lesson of the Dark- ness " wherein the spirit , like Moses , ascends the holy mountain of the Sinai , the " mountain of theognosy , is that very ascent re- jected by philosophism from Hegel to ...
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